Presidents of The University of Chicago - Law School

Law School

• Gerhard Casper – Former Dean of the Law School and Provost at the University of Chicago. President Emeritus of Stanford University.
• Ronald Coase – Professor Emeritus of Law. Nobel laureate in Economics. Co-founder of law and economics movement, arguably the most influential intellectual movement in legal scholarship in the second half of the 20th century.
• Aaron Director – Played a central role in the development of the law and economics movement. Founded the Journal of Law and Economics, which he co-edited with Ronald Coase.
• Frank Easterbrook – Judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Richard Epstein – Currently the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law
• Elena Kagan – Former Professor and Dean of Harvard Law School and now a US Supreme Court Justice.
• Leon Kass –
• Karl Llewellyn – Major figure in the school of legal realism.
• Catharine MacKinnon – American feminist.
• Michael W. McConnell – Federal judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Leading constitutional originalist.
• Martha Nussbaum – Philosopher and public intellectual, currently Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics .
• Barack Obama – President of the United States of America.
• Richard Posner – Helped start law and economics movement.
• Roberta Cooper Ramo – First woman President, American Bar Association.
• Antonin Scalia – United States Supreme Court justice; Professor at the Law School (1977–1982).
• David Strauss –
• Cass Sunstein –
• James Boyd White – Founder of "Law and Literature" movement.
• Diane Wood – Judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals